Mi pregunta va sobre el por qué no se fotografió expresamente el cielo, que debía ser espectacular. He visto alguna foto de la tierra, pero ni una sola estrella.
Lo mismo tengo suerte y me saco esta espina.
Porque no iban a tomar fotografías de la Torre Eifel como si fueran turistas. Cielos oscuros todavía sigue habiendo bastantes en la Tierra. Y en 1969, más. Así que ir a la Luna a tomar una foto que sale mejor desde la Tierra, no tiene sentido.
Sentido tiene ir y tomar fotos de la Luna y de la Tierra.
Por eso las cámaras que se llevaron fueron estas. No se iban a llevar una montura motorizada que pesa y abulta un quintal, solo para que las estrellas no salieran movidas.
70-mm Hasselblad Electric Camera. This camera, which was carried aboard the command module, antiestéticatured a motor-drive mechanism, powered by two nickel-cadmium batteries, that advanced the film and cocked the shutter whenever the camera was activated.
70-mm Hasselblad Lunar Surface Superwide-Angle Cameras. These cameras, which were carried aboard the lunar module, were operated manually for the shutter and film advance.
70-mm Hasselblad EL Data Camera. This electrically powered camera, carried on the lunar module, antiestéticatured semiautomatic operation. It used 60-mm Biogon lens exclusively. The operating sequence was initiated by squeezing a trigger mounted on the camera handle. A reseau grid was set in front of the image plane to provide photogrammetric information in the analysis of the photography. The camera was bracket-mounted on the front of a LM astronaut's suit.
16-millimeter Maurer Data Acquisition Camera. Apollo 11 carried two Maurer data acquisition cameras, one on the command module and one on the lunar module. The cameras were used primarily to record engineering data and for continuous-sequence terrain photography. The CM camera had lenses of 5-mm, 10-mm, and 75-mm focal lengths; the LM camera was fitted with an 18-mm wide-angle lens. Accessories included a right-angle mirror, a power cable, and a CM boresight window bracket.
The Maurer camera weighed 2.8 pounds with a 130-foot film magazine attached. It had frame rates of 1, 6, and 12 fps automatic and 24 fps semiautomatic at all lens focal lengths, and shutter speeds of 1/60, 1/125, 1/500, and 1/1000 second, again, at all lens focal lengths.
35-mm Lunar Surface Close-up Stereoscopic Camera. This camera, carried on the lunar module's Modular Equipment Storage Assembly (MESA), was designed for the highest possible resolution of a 3-inch square area with a flash illumination and fixed distance. Photography was accomplished by holding the camera on a walking stick against the object to be photographed. The camera was powered by four nickel-cadmium batteries that operated the motor-drive mechanism and an electronic flash strobe light.
